Overview

In Rhino 6 for Windows, we've fully embraced Grasshopper
- the wildly popular visual programming language - by "baking
it in." Grasshopper is no longer beta; it's a stable development
environment. We've also rewritten some features and renovated
workflows that needed fundamental overhauls to make them
truly productive. These are the highlights...

The long beta period is over: Grasshopper, the world's
most beautiful programming language, is now a full-fledged
part of Rhino. Used in some of the most ambitious design projects
of the past decade, Grasshopper, like Rhino, has become a robust
development platform. Grasshopper provides the solid foundation
for many incredible third-party components ranging from
environmental analysis to robotic control.

Presentation is key: during nearly every phase of design,
you need to communicate, getting "buy-in" from clients,
customers, collaborators, or the public at large. We've
improved Rhino with the aim of helping you present your
work: be it "quick and dirty" or "high-res glossy." With
major changes to Rendering, Materials, or just plain capturing
the viewport, it's now easier and faster to present, discuss,
make decisions, and iterate.

Rhino's new display pipeline is faster, more stable,
and uses features found on modern graphics hardware, like
GPU sensitive shaders and memory optimizations. This results
in fewer GPU-specific display glitches and more consistent,
beautiful, and frequent frames, even with large models.
In some conditions, display speed can be up to 300% faster.

Modeling is just one part of the design process; you
also need to show how to build what is on the screen. We've
refined many parts of the documentation workflow,
from a completely reworked annotation-style interface, to
better DWG support, and RichText throughout. It's now easier
to convey accurately and clearly the what and the
how of your design.

Small quirks add up to painful paper cuts over the course
of a prolonged modeling session. In Rhino 6, we've fixed
hundreds of minor bugs and consolidated disparate - but
similar - features into single commands, making Rhino much
more refined.

Rhino is more than just a modeler. With a rich ecosystem
of plugins and an open set of development tools, Rhino is
quickly becoming the development platform for those seeking to
push the envelope of design. Rhino 6 brings major improvements to
our free SDKs, with API refinements, better documentation, and
more access to Rhino commands from Grasshopper.

We're constantly improving Rhino. Rhino 6 users have
access to the Serengeti community and our Work-In-Progress
(WIP) builds. The WIP builds are where we are developing
future features like SubD support, Grasshopper 2, a new
real-time rendering engine, and much more.